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Published on 12/25/1995 All articles from this issue

Grisedale leaves LAVA Feb. 1 for family business

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By Clyde Noel / Town Crier Staff Writer

Sandy Grisedale isn't leaving The Los Altos Village Association until Feb. 1, but she already knows how much she will miss Los Altos. Her two busy years as executive director will be remembered as exciting years in her life. Los Altos will be the village where she found and made new friends, and in leaving, hopes she left an impact on the city.

"I want to thank the business and the residential community for helping me fill the tremendous shoes left empty when Jane Reed retired," Grisedale said. "Everyone was helpful, encouraging and supportive, and that meant the world to me."

Sandy's husband, Mark Grisedale, has a thriving veterinary business on the Peninsula. It is growing, and with expansion he needs additional administrative help. Sandy is resigning from LAVA to help her husband.

"Mark and I have put a lot of time and planning into my decision to leave LAVA, Grisedale said. "But with my husband's equine practice expanding daily, he will be out of the office more, and I will help by focusing on the administrative end of his equine practice."

During the two years Grisedale spent at LAVA, she will remember planting 2,000 daffodil bulbs on Main and State streets with the Los Altos Garden Club members, and recall the Concert Series in the Plaza that was coordinated with Seville Properties.

She will also recall the "Don't Let it Fall" campaign put together on Saturday mornings when she helped pick up the paper and debris to make Los Altos a cleaner city and placing the spring banners on the light poles that were made with hundreds of volunteer hours.

"This Community has a passionate feeling toward itself," Grisedale said. "It is continuously giving back. LAVA hosts a variety of events during the year and the merchants always generously take part in them."

The executive director's opening has been advertised for several weeks and numerous replies received. Grisedale will reduce those inquiries to the more serious applicants and turn them over to the LAVA officers for a decision to be made after the first of the year. The new director will then have several weeks to work with Grisedale before her departure.